Quotes By Michelle Williams

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

An interview is like a minefield.

And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the other is spent with no work in sight.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

I'm not making any bets on the future.

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

I love domestic life.

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

I'm Norwegian.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

I did find my direction at an early age.

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.